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Yes, I am still seeing it. Some sites that I have researched states that this issue is not uncommon, but I still do not understand why it has started happening all of a sudden and so far, only this community. But a couple of sources states that it may be due to browser issues. One source says that it could be updated issues and etc. I am still looking into it. I ran an update but I just saw it again. However, yesterday, I did see something different. I saw that adds popped up with that same little 'x' on the bottom right of my screen, and after I clicked the 'x', the add disappeared. So I wonder if this is a new feature, because I have never gotten adds in that area of my screen until now. But again, today, the 'x' popped up without the ad.

You're right. @Pioneer1 The video of this brawl does not even come close to some of the other videos of Black people being attacked. I don't get it! And, mostly all of the major news sources play this brawl and anyone can access it. Yes. Me too. It's obvious that people were fighting though, and there were some arrest.

Oh! I got stuck! Great article. @Troy I watched the first video but the second one is over an hour long!!! I started watching it though, and GEEZ! I ended up reading the entire article. I couldn't stop! It took me, like, ALL DAY! I couldn't turn away, this article was written so well! I started reading around 12 noon and stopped around 5:30 PM!!! Then, I kept thinking about it all evening, and even though I was exhausted and have little sleep, I just had to finish the whole article and then watched the first video. For some reason this reminds me of a documentary that JayZ did. I definitely want to comment on some of what i read, but I am so tired! I hope to come back to comment. It's about 3:00 AM--in the morning! I am SO ANGRY!

Lol! Really!? WOW. He must have deleted his comment! Man, I can't believe that. He was so brazen to write it, then deletes it! Yes, absolutely. You have to choose battles and make decision for the good of the entire community. That is what keeps this alive, your wisdom and boldness in the way that you deal with forum moderation. Sometimes, I can see that at times you will come into a thread and reply to bad spirited posters and I am like, YES! Troy commented! And, I know I am not immune myself to perhaps getting into the heat of the debate and, I sometimes look over my shoulder, so-to-speak. LOL. I think there are many African Americans like me, who have been burnt so deeply due to racism and discrimination because of being Black so therefore, I just do NOT trust America at all and this causes me to respond emotionally when faced with an obvious racial attack.

Another Popular Line Dance! WOW! There seems to be an explosion for Line Dances lately! There is a new one that popped up on my channel called THE TAMIA LINE DANCE, I Can't Get Enough. The song by Tamia, is I Can't Get Enough, and this Line Dance is so popular that it is featured at many venues. I never heard of it until now, but it was made popular back in 2018! I had no idea. I still think Jerusalema is one of the best, I've ever seen, so much so, it was performed worldwide and in many different venues. I mean, it was so awesome it was performed in many places in Europe, India, and all over Africa to the point there was a dance challenge. It was performed in a Scandinavian Airport and the dancers were employees and they went all out! Remember the song, Happy by Pharrell, that song was so loved, it was performed all over the world, however, I don't believe it was a dance line choreographed, rather people performed their own renditions and interpreted what made them Happy! I love the couple that I saw first who performed it! Some of the viewers called the guy, Chad, 'White Chocolate' LOL. I have to admit, he was killing it--with his wife. And I posted another of my favorite renditons. But then, I saw another amazing Line Dance that has also become extremely popular called THE CURIOUS LINE DANCE. I believe it is more recentand was choreographed by a Black man out of New York, however, it is performed everywhere especially at Black social event! The Curious Line Dance seems a little challenging, imo and not many who do it can really work it out! But I posted two of my favorites, and these brothers killed it. And there is a third one I just absolutely love and that became so popular that it became global a few years ago from Africa. And the song became viral. Eventually someone came up with a choreography that also went viral and sparked a dance challenge that went global. This line dance is from the song KELVYN BOY and the song is so lovely. The dance lines are performed in many venues such as wedding parties. Couples love to dance with this song even older couples all over the world. And there are dance groups that have become famous all over Africa. But one of my most favorite rendition is by a Canadian girl that became so famous that she herself went viral. Her name is Kacy Rondeau and she moved to Ghana and was discovered by a media company in Nigeria. She married a Nigerian man and has lived in Africa for more than five years. She is so awesome and she kills this dance! TAMIA LINE DANCE I'M CURIOUS LINE DANCE THE MUSIC IS MUTED HALFWAY THROUGH THIS ONE! KELVYN BOY DANCE CHALLENGE--Kacy Rondeau!!! She is Killing it! This Video Went Viral! Ghana Bridesmaids Perform KELVYN BOY! So Classy! OFFICIAL VIDEO of a Dance Group of African Young Men Perform KELVYN BOY! They Really Show case this Dance! Kacy Performs to a very popular African song CALM DOWN! A Video Short. Kacy is now very famous! One More Kacy Rondeau Video Short Dance Challenge--She is Amazing

Yes, I agree to a point. @Troy It is like a never ending issue until America is overhauled anyway. Racism needs to be eradicated completely and for you to remove them or not isn't going to solve the problem. Still though, I feel that they should not get away with some of the racist things they say and do in America. At what point should Hate Speech be defined as a Hate crime? I understand freedom of Speech, but to commicate certain derogatory typed speech, I feel should be regulated, but again, at what point should a citation be dealt is the question.

Absolutely! You gave her good advice.

Wow! That's interesting. She's beautiful and a great actress. I think she can pull off just about any role she wants to do.

@Pioneer1 Thank you for letting me know! It just started happening about a week ago. I will research to see if I can find out why this has started.

These last few post are too funny! But there were some gun violence in the 60s, sad to say. However, as you say, it wasn't many, mostly knife crimes. I remember when I was in 2nd grade the school intercom announcement warned us about a gang called 'the Jolly Green Giants' jumping kids while walking home from school. It gave me nightmares. But thankfully, I had a few male cousins that were rough enough for the threat, and probably were, uh, ya know what I'm finna say . . . LOL. They showed up a lot to jump in and help me and my sister out, as we did get in a lot of fights on the school grounds. I remember Mahogany Books, but I am out of sync. I don't know what it has to do with Chuck? Anyway, Katt Williams is too funny! Oh! I love Iverson mall! DC!!! You made me laugh till I started crying.

Conspiracy or Not? Obama's Chef, Tamari Campbell Drowning Following the news of Campbell's untimely passing, his wife Sherise shared this photo to Instagram noting she was 'heartbroken' I came across this brief youtube video and, although the host says that he believes that 99% this drowning was accidental, however, he also has a 1% doubt. One of the main reasons he says that he believes there could be a deeper reason behind this death is because this is the second incident of a White House Chef who died by accidental drowning. Back in 2015, the Clinton's Chef also died by accidental drowning. Also, Tafari was initially reported to have repeatedly said that he could not swim, however, in this brief video, a couple of video's are shown of him actually swimming! Yeah, so I really did not pause about this awful and sad news until I came across this report. Now I do wonder! Tafari was initially hired on the Bush administration, I think a then was asked to stay on to be a cook for the Obamas. And he became Obama's personal chef. And like this host said, WHAT A NEAT NAME, TAFARI. I love it and can see a connection between Obama and the chef with regards to this wonderful name! I feel so sorry for his family. Anyway, here is the video and some brief references and a comment from the youtube. 1st 3 days ago Chefs make the perfect "accidental witness". They see, hear and learn things we don't. The people that say these things are worried about the possibility of certain things that were said over their meal being "leaked". How do you ultimately protect information that wasn't supposed to be shared? Eliminate ALL possible witnesses to the fact. Chefs do it by accident... they hear too much and that's no conspiracy but a fact. Read more 738 Reply "It's a Trend" - Obama's White House Chef Found Dead Tafari Campbell, 45, (pictured with wife Sherise) was found dead on Monday by divers after going missing while paddle boarding on the pond that backs on to Barack Obama 's sprawling $12million estate. Campbell's family told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 2009 he had always shown an interest in cooking and would frequently whip something up when his large family came to visit. He graduated from a culinary school in Virginia, and had briefly owned his own restaurant before applying for a job at the White House. The sous chef was eventually hired under the George W. Bush administration, and was one of just four White House cooks asked to stay on under Obama. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12333171/Barack-Michelle-Obamas-personal-chef-identified-man-dead-paddle-boarding-accident-near-12m-Marthas-Vineyard-home.html Campbell worked while the Obama's were in the White House from 2009-2017 A view of Obama's house from Turkeyland Cove where Campbell worked as the Obama's personal chef

Okay!

Yes, I agree.

My relatives live(d) in SOUTHEAST DC!!! LOL! I lived and went to school there at times when I was young.. At one time, my aunt lived in Kennilworth! Ya Know! And, my Mom was mugged on 17th Street SE walking home from the grocery store. I can't believe you just wrote this. At one time, even the cabs wouldn't come to that side of DC. LOL. But DC can't be all that much more worse than what I've heard about Detroit, can it? What is OG?

What it's like teaching in Florida lately.

LOL! Initially, I thought you made a mistake, but then, I think that was intentional; Unidentified FRYING Objects! Anyhow, I think that this subject being brought up in government official forums and the military is insane! I can see why the government and military would be aggressive about tracking airplanes and missiles to protect our country from foreign entry! That is crucial. But to phrase these military operations to track foreign airplanes as being UFOS and UAP in association with outer space objects and perceived phenomena is ridiculous IMO. I believe a lot of money it spent on tracking asteroids byway of the federal government. They support NASA and other space agencies intensely and I can understand this too, but to lump these endeavors in one category is crazy. Mankind have invented a lot of satellites and space instruments and flying air machines that successfully have been launched into our airways and into space, but I believe a distinction should be made in what mankind have launched as oppossed to natural space phenomena if at all possible. Maybe it is that our government cannot always confirm whether or not the UAPs are manmade and that is why they lump it all in one category, but sometimes, I think they can come up with some type of protocol to quickly rule out if it is one or the other, but they just don't want to be honest about it and so, they report in such a way as to invite idiots to speak crazy beliefs and they use this as a smoke screen to deal with real threats and not have to bother with junk believers which causes prolems in protecting their major interest with governmental defense issues.

Okay, Than you! @ProfD I will try that and see if it goes away. Thank you @Troy I will let you know in a few days if it did go away. If it doesn't then, I will probably make other inquiries. This is the only site where I am getting this issue but then, I don't visit many platforms like this community, anyway. As you mentioned in another thread about Black businesses on the decline, I would rather be part of and have the means to support African American businesses but, I don't feel there are many substantial ones as you have.

I think that you are right! @Pioneer1

I believe this only partially and don't think that the real origin of genes that cause lactase to be in the intestines of certain people while not in others is not completely understood. Scientist know it has to do with genes but then they say it is also based on some cultures who drink milk all of the time and for this reason will develop lactase. But again, I think there is some contradiction especially considering the ancient TURKISH PEOPLES; The Keraites. They know that the Keraites drink milk and ate yogurt but they did have problems with being lactose intolerant. @Troy THE BLACK GENE? Melanin, would probably be the best way to understand this topic. There are combination of genes that do define certain characteristics that certain humans exhibit. Genes tend to travel in pairs. But as you say, we are all on a spectrum when it comes to all the characteristics, ALL EXCEPT FOR ONE!!! And that one, is what makes people of African descent, ABORGINALS, unique. And yes, I believe that understanding genetics and how modern western mankind have confused us with their definition of 'Race' in relation to 'skin color' is wrong but this is what they did to make it seem complex. SKIN COLOR is arbitrary in terms of defining humans based solely on this phenotype basis, but the origin and genetics is important too, in how it relates to what @Pioneer1is addressing. Food allergies are a reality but how it relates to certain humans in terms of 'race' is confusing, I agree, but it's because of modern interpretations. We, as modern humans share more traits than not, and even show that we have inter-bred with Primitive humans, however, you will never see any scientific proof that Neanderthals were walking around with afros. This factor is vital in understanding how we all as modern humans differientiate on the spectrum of genotypical traits. That is absolutely questionable. Scientists have not confirmed any male haplogroup for Neanderthals, and as this article explains, they are trying to exact statements based on 'X-linked Haplotype' to base their opinions. Other studies say that Neanderthals were Lactose Intolerant, but I don't actually believe that completely because for now, they say that Neanderthals ate meat as a main diet and did not drink milk. And they say that Neanderthals have blood type O, and that is a broad interpretation, imo. So I think though, that Neanderthal genetics is important in understanding how we differ today!

Ah! What an amazing observation! @ProfD I had a delayed reaction to this point in that makes me think of how the Western viewpoint of the kind of brown people that do fight against things they don't like are negatively portrayed byway of negative propaganda, so therefore, this could be thought of by others as a way to make others afraid of taking any form of action. Ah! But @Pioneer1 for some BLACK PEOPLE, sometimes complaining to HR or managers will absolutely get you fired or cause much more harrassment. I KNOW THIS ON A PERSONAL BASIS! If the POLL had a third option @richardmurray, of which would be 'Not sure', then I would select that option because I really don't know if other ethnic people complain as much as Black people do. I know that they complain, but I don't know if they do to the same degree as Black people. I read some of the article you posted but need to come back and read all of it before I know for sure how to comment. BUT, I do feel sometimes, that only after Black people complain about certain issues that revolve around racial injustice, then and only then do other ethnic people complain when they see that Black people begin to get noticed and this, in turn, is used against Black people whereby others will get the better relief while we just get blamed for starting the problem and then demonized and then suppressed even more so. That is how I feel.

I wonder if this is just happening to me or is this a new part this community. Every time I click into a thread, there is a little black and white 'X' box that appears. Even if I click on an icon at the bottom of a post, that 'x' appears. Sometimes, I cannot submit my post unless I click on that little 'x'. Even if I browse without logging in, that little 'x' will appear. If anyone knows why this is happening or if they are getting the same issue, please let me know.

I have not seen this movie. After my kids grew up, I've drifted away from watching a lot of films but if I get free time, I would watch it because it seems to be a great film. I have not watched the Princess and the Frog but that too seems like a good film but I did watch Cinderella, the new version with Brandy and Whiteney Houston and Whoopi Goldberg. I thought what the review host said was very interesting. I can see now that Disney is doing this because they want to shift the narrative and theme to include Black females as being princesses. And, as she said too, I can see that Disney is trying to change other past accepted beliefs and is why the prince in Cinderella was Asian, however, I thought this was a little far fetched. The casting of Whoopi and the queen mother and the actor as the father who was White, makes sense that the prince could be acceptable as being Asian, but still, it was odd imo. Other than that, I loved the movie. I loved the Step-mother and the actresses that played the sisters. Now though, because of the back lash about the princess in The Little Mermaid, it makes me laugh to imagine a movie being remade with Belle being Black for The Beauty and the Beast! LOL. Side Note too: The original Cinderella is Black anyway! I've written about this in that, it is the very story remade by Europeans in White face, but they got this story from the Biblical Book, SONG OF SOLOMON of the Black Virgin that Solomon wrote about. And although, mermaids are fantastical, I vaguely remember reading about ancient legends during the pre-Greek Classical Age and etc. of how ancient peoples stories about male half-human-half-fish sea creatures, sea-dragons and etc. Mermons (male mermaids) were common myths in ancient times, so maybe that is why Disney thought it would be a good idea to make a modern version of Little Mermaid be Black.

Why We Shouldn't Forget Uncle Remus By Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser - [1] (Note: Original edition featuring this illustration published in 1881; scan this is taken from may be a slightly later printing (this is unclear), but the image itself is identical to that which appeared in the original 1881 edition, thus has the same copyright status)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=99770852 Cropped image from the title page of Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, by Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. ========================= *** ======================== I did a brief research to refresh my mind about the historical aspect of the name ‘Remus’ and why whenever I think about this name, I always associate it to a common name for Black Slave men during chattel slavery time. This subject came up due to a recent comment on another discussion thread. I was reminded of my past research and shared my thoughts in the discussion to Pioneer. I believe in ancient Roman times, the Romans developed a type of script format in which many words and phrases were written in reverse script. However, they were not the first civilization to this but it goes way back in time to the Egyptians and the Bible contains a lot of this feature as the prophets coded prophecy in this format. By Roman times, it became known as Palindrome and it was extensive. This method of script has been used to retain hidden definitions and therefore, I believe that the name ‘Remus’ is one such name that has a hidden historical aspect. I believe that this name was given to many Black slave men based on an historical hidden aspect that goes all the way back to Roman times and is associated with the ancient Romans’ Founder legend about the two brothers, Remus and Romulus. Furthermore, I also believe that this ancient Roman Founder story includes these two names because it symbolizes a hidden message of how the Romans exploited ancient Black people that were indigenous to ancient Europe. I believe that the two names represent two distinct ‘Black peoples’ that coexisted in Italy and the Romans targeted them with a ‘divide-and-conquer-method, and systematically created conflicts that rose between them which led to them attacking each other. This is a repeated practice of infiltration and then extinction attempts that ancient Romans used in many ancient Black civilizations. The fact that this ancient legend defines the two Black men as being ‘brothers’ is extremely significant because most of the Black civilizations always developed with Black men who set up on a ‘brotherhood system’ and although their cultures were distinct, however, due to their practice of marriage alliances, there was always a common brotherhood bond in early civilizations. For this reason, I believe that the name ‘Remus’ signifies a type of Sumerian people (Sumer-Remus) and ‘Romulus’ signifies a type of Etruscan peoples (Moor-Sulu) of whom migrated into Italy from Syria and Turkey Anatolia around the 1200s BC and intermixed with Lusitanians. Fast forward to modern times, I believe that the name of ‘Remus’ carries a certain meaning in association to Black people and this may be why the author of The Song of the South chose the name ‘Uncle Remus’ to describe an ex-slave Black man as the central character to his stories. The author, Joel Chandler Harris, a White man, lived on a plantation in Georgia and developed his stories from listening to the Black people that lived on this planation. He became well acquainted with the kind of pidgin language spoken by the Black Americans on this plantation and strongly believed that it was very important to preserve this Black cultural aspect of spoken language. His books and his rendition became very popular, however, some Black Americans became offended. And so, eventually, the Uncle Remus stories became a controversy of which may still be so today. Presently, some people believe that these stories should still be made available to the public and the history should continue to be preserved. The ancient Roman historical aspect of what I believe exist as an underlying factor and that has been kept completely hidden, therefore, I wonder why bother keeping it in the forefront today. In addition to the Uncle Remus stories of our modern times and the Disney special that came from it, however, in Europe there was another author that wrote a story called, The Life and Times of Remusa, and the ethnic aspect that seems to connect this story to the complete overthrow of the mysterious Etruscans in Rome seems surreal. That story revolves around a Slavic people, the Kashubians, in Poland and one major aspect of the story revolves around the comedic fashion in how the character speaks. Although Uncle Remus’s name has its ultimate origins n Rome’s Romulus and Remus legend, its more immediate antecedent was an elderly Black gardener Harris met in Forsyth, Georgia, where Harris had served from 1867 to 1870 as an editor for the Monroe Advertiser. The Brer Rabbit Stories Harris’s fictionalized storyteller, Uncle Remus, was a “human syndicate” whom he had admittedly “walloped together” from several Black storytellers he had met while working from 1862 to 1866 as a printing compositor on Joseph Addison Turner’s Turnwold Plantation, outside Eatonton, in Putnam County. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/uncle-remus-tales/#:~:text=Although%20Uncle%20Remus%27s%20name%20has,editor%20for%20the%20Monroe%20Advertiser The Life and Adventures of Remus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Life and Adventures of Remus - the Kashubian Mirror (Kashubian title Żëce i przigodë Remusa - Zvjercadło kaszubskji) is a novel written in the Kashubian language by Dr. Aleksander Majkowski (1876–1938). The linguist Gerald Green … Literary technique[edit] The novel's subtitle, Zvjercadło kaszubskji ("Kashubian Mirror"), is a clear signal of its lush allegorical content. Remus himself, with his incomprehensible speech and comically peculiar mannerisms, aptly symbolizes outsiders' perception of the Kashubian people. Why We Shouldn't Forget Uncle Remus..... (Part 1) By film screenshot (Monogram Pictures) - https://archive.org/details/RevengeOfTheZombies, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=130901534 James Baskett in Revenge of the Zombies - cropped screenshot Although Uncle Remus’s name has its ultimate origins in Rome’s Romulus and Remus legend, its more immediate antecedent was an elderly Black gardener Harris met in Forsyth, Georgia, where Harris had served from 1867 to 1870 as an editor for the Monroe Advertiser. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/uncle-remus-tales/#:~:text=Although%20Uncle%20Remus%27s%20name%20has,editor%20for%20the%20Monroe%20Advertiser

Yes, I think the Reparations talk on a governmental level is big deal. But I think that there are a lot of people that are fighting hard against it. A while back, I vaguely remember Dr. Phil making a comment saying that Reparations would be a disaster. Some people say that to give a monetary large sum to Black Americans would not be beneficial and believe that REparations should be given in the form of programs like college vouchers and medical benefits.